Complimenting Manafort News Today

Impeachment proceedings against president trump. those words matter. as for trump, he continued today, not only to dangle a pardon for manafort, explicitly, to the "new york post," but essentially to justify it by comparing bob mueller to joseph mccarthy. the president today tweeting, "at least three major players are intimating that the angry mueller gang of dems is viciously telling witnesses to lie about facts and they will get relief. this is our joseph mccarthy era." keep in mind, of course...

Things that mueller is looking at right now. but it also is interesting, because on both legs of this, the trump tower meeting that manafort attended and the wikileaks piece that roger stone and jerome coursey have information about, there have been significant public reports talked about on this show and elsewhere that essentially the witnesses who mueller would need to prove that trump is lying either arent cooperating or are lying themselves. >> and eliana, the president answering these quest...

People manafort, corsy. i dont know corsy, but he refuses to say what they demanded. corsi is front and center in the mueller probe, and wow, does he have a story youll want to hear? >> glad to be back with you again. >> the rejected plea agreement and his willingness to spill the details landing him on muellers bad side. >> my attorneys said that special counsel wasnt very pleased. they said well take it from here. >> draft court filings into he received in plea discussions shed light on how a ...

Interference than this by those who had a legal duty but abused their legal duty for an improper purpose were prosecuted for obstruction, and the -- i think theres very powerful evidence here. >> so, james, let me ask you, because obviously "the new york times" has reported manaforts legal team has been briefing trumps team on their actions with mueller, as a regular citizen, that sounds really strange to me. my understanding is that that can happen, but it is incredibly unusual for it to be hap...

>> james, i mean, you know, trump has never criticized manafort and again and again and again he says positive things, even after manafort agreed to cooperate with prosecutors. how is that not dangling a pardon, saying, just the be quiet, dont worry. >> if this is a crime, its the most conspicuous crime in the history of man to have a tweet that basically says, why would i give up the possibility of pardons in front of whatever, 300 million americans and god knows how many other people. i mean, ...

Post" today, quote, i wouldnt take it off the table. why would i take it off the table? its a big thing to say, that a pardon is on the table, to say it explicitly as the president of the united states has just done. paul manafort tonight is in solitary confinement, convicted on eight counts, most of them for fraud, charged with hiding $60 million in income, and bob mueller says manafort is still lying to him again and again and again, even after manafort promised to cooperate with the special c...

Perfectly consistent, sometimes not. but i cant think of a federal prosecutor that would try to build a case around that tweet and say, no matter what the history, no matter what the kind of political or moral blame you might have for the president is, to try to build a legal case for federal obstruction on his kind of ruminations like that seems pretty farfetched to me. >> okay, but to the point, though, let me say it because obviously the reason that you have the incoming judiciary chairman, a...

United states and around the world. stick around. youll want to see tomorrows report as well. thats it for me. thank you very much for watching. im wolf blitzer in "the situation room." "erin burnett outfront" starts "erin burnett outfront" starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com president trump dangling a pardon in front of paul manafort. is the president at risk of truly obstructing justice? and the man whos becoming a central player in bob muellers investigation. who is je...